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Thanks for loving students
- Justin

1. Love God
2. Be Yourself
3. repeat

Seems easy but if you get super deep these can be some of the hardest things to do on a daily basis!

Thanks for loving students
- Justin

Fear is a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid.

What is your fear? Failure, responsibility, truth, speaking, your boss…

Many times the hardest part about fear is recognizing it! Once you know what you fear you then have a choice to fight it or let it win!

Thanks for loving students
- Justin

Love this and had to share it…that’s all!

Thanks for loving students
- Justin

In college, i had one of those 8am classes, ugh, but the best part about this class was we watched movies, TV shows, and commercials for most of the class. Our professor choose one show for us to watch throughout the semester and that show was Friday Night Lights! He said he almost choose Battle Star Galactic…thankfully he didn’t…sorry to all the Glactica fans out there! Many of you may have seen or at least heard of the movie Friday night Lights, which is great film but the TV show is far better! The topics the show hit on are great starting points for parent to child conversation starters. PLUS the show is greatly entertaining and 100%addictive to young and old!

Other Parent/Child Tools:
The Way I’m Wired – by Katie Brazelton
- DVD Curriculum, Student Devo, & Parents Book
KidUnique by Dan Webster
- A training for parents and volunteer leaders (Staff Favorite)

We all have mixed feelings when it comes to graduating seniors. Some students we are excited to see leave and others that bring tears to our eyes just thinking about how far they have come. Here are 4 tips to Graduation that will ensure that you do not cry, but then again it’s not a horrible thing to be “this guy”!

#1 – Don’t Have a Graduation Celebration
#2 – Tell your students they simply aren’t graduating
#3 – Ignore that graduation even exists
#4 – Take vacation when you are to have your Graduation Celebration

Ok…so maybe these aren’t great ideas, but I know some of you just asked for the time-off! Take a second and breathe this is a season of life that you are privileged to celebrate with those graduating seniors. This is your chance to tell embarrassing mission stories about each of them and send them riding off into the sunset to become a productive part of society. My advice…celebrate them, embarrass them, but don’t forget about them! You can still speak into their lives for months and years to come run with that opportunity

Thanks for loving students
- Justin

P.S.
Here are some great Under $15 graduation gift ideas:
Graduation Gift Set – by Doug Fields, Chuck Bomar & Joshua Griffin
99 Thoughts on Jesus-Centered Living – by Rick Lawrence
Thrive – by Ben Hardman
99 Thoughts for College-Aged People – by Chuck Bomar

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Thanks for loving students
- Justin

Have you seen this story? If not here is a super-duper short version of the story…A 9-year-old named Caine created a card-board arcade world because of the encouragement from his father! Did you hear that the ENCOURAGEMENT of HIS FATHER. Uhm…i’m sure you get the teaching illustration we are throwing down here. Watch the video and maybe even dare I say send it out to your students parents? Empower students and watch what THEY CAN DO! Goes for ministry also…is it your youth ministry or their youth ministry?

Thanks for loving students
- Justin